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I was hoping to get a shot of the full moon tonight but its supposed to be very cloudy. I took this last night just in case. I'm glad I did.
Wolf Moon
January's Wolf Moon.... the weather forecast favourable and correct (!) ...carefully calculated in Photopills the plan this afternoon was for a photo of the moon to be behind the Liverbirds...unfortunately Stena parked the Belfast Ferry in the way!...so this was a close as it got above the Liver building!
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The wolf in the zoo is moving about in a narrow cage while doing a
rough breath all day long. He seems to have gotten irritated very much.
動物園の狼は、狭い檻の中を一日中ハッハッハッと荒い息をしながら動き回っている。じっとしていられないのだろう。険しい顔をしていて、とても苛立っているように見える。
狼は人間になつかない（人間が与える餌を食べない）ので飼うのは無理と何かで読んだ事があるが、動物園で飼われているし、木下大サーカスで猛獣使いのショーに出ているのを観た事がある。その猛獣使いは虎やライオン、豹など１０頭位の肉食獣に芸を仕込んでいた。猫科の大型の猛獣は猛獣使いの指示通りに動いているように見えたが、列の後ろの方の狼やハイエナ（ジャッカル？）の類いは何となくうろうろしてるだけのように見えた。
叔父さんから戦争中、ソ連に派兵されていた時、朝起きたら部隊の軍馬が狼に全滅させれていたという話を聞いた事がある。どの馬も喉の辺りを一噛みで絶命させれていたそうだ。
A couple of gray wolves pose nicely for me.
Wish I could say I snuck up on them and got this shot at 122mm. Instead I enjoyed some quality time with several wolves at West Yellowstone's Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center. This was my favorite pair. A stop here is highly recommended if you're ever in West Yellowstone.
Enjoy a wonderful weekend!
Kamera Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Belichtung 0,004 sec (1/250)
Blende f/6.3
Brennweite 313 mm
ISO-Empfindlichkeit 2000
Have made a special bond with this beautiful girl.. She and her brother Denali are at a small zoo at Como Park here in St. Paul Mn.
They were born on April 5, 2003 so they both are pretty old now..
Shyanne ( spelled with an S because they said she is shy)..
Shyanne will come up to the fence if she sees me or hears me call her and walk back and forth rubbing her body against the fence.. She and her brother sleep a lot , but heck, they are in their 90's in human years! ; )
I have to have another surgery on May 3, hope to back on Flickr more often then,, Hope everyone is doing well! ; )
I posted a few of her photos...
Thanks to everyone for your visits and wonderful comments ; )
Screaming girls brought this Wolf Spider to my attention, so this little lady came in for a photo session. No worries arachnid fans, she is back outside roaming the garden as we speak.
How absolutely beautiful is she?!
This was a very lucky and unexpected encounter I will never forget with a wild female wolf in Algonquin Provincial Park.
Ontario, Canada
I was somewhat impressed with the clarity of the water in the western Montana 'pond' which allowed such wonderful reflections of this Timber Wolf. I almost think he scared himself with his own reflections.
Gray Wolf
Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming
We had seen that the pack had spread out before and after crossing the Madison river--some taking the bridge, and some cutting across the open plain, meaning that they had to cross the river by swimming through it--but we didn't know where they all went. So we sat by the side of the road and waited to see where they would show up.
Lo and behold, this beautiful creature just emerged right next to the van and, as I was sitting next to the door, I managed to overcome my shock and get a few shots in without shooting through tainted glass.
It makes me sick to my stomach when one hears how they are being decimated outside of the park.
Wolf Moon tonight brings visions of wolves howling at the moon to mind. What does a Wolf Moon tonight mean? A Wolf Moon is a full moon in January. The 2010 Wolf Moon appears on January 29.
The name Wolf Moon comes from hungry wolf packs that howled outside Native American villages. The Wolf Moon is also referred to as the Moon After Yule and the Old Moon.
According to the Farmers Almanac, the Native Americans in the eastern and northern United States kept track of the seasons by naming recurring full moons such as the Wolf Moon. When it was cold, wolves howled hungrily outside the Indian villages. The January full moon was thus named a Wolf Moon. The February full moon is the Ice Moon.
Will you watch the Wolf Moon tonight? Spaceweather.com reports the Wolf Moon tonight will appear about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than the typical full moon.
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This dominant female wolf is the most impressive of the Olderdissen pack. She has the least doglike face and bears the scars of many fights.
This wolf crossed the road directly in front of me in the Lamar Valley. No one else was around and I had him all to myself to myself for awhile. I almost had a heart attack wielding the bazooka out the window! He went into the Lamar River for a drink, swam across the river, and then went off -- pausing here to give me a thrilling glimpse of his spooky eyes.
We had the good fortune to observe and photograph a wild Gray Wolf in Jasper national Park, Alberta, Canada at close range for several minutes. I contacted the Park Biologist for information regarding this individual since it was collared and am told that this is Wolf 112, a female from the Sunwapta Pack consisting of 4 adult wolves. There are 6 small wolf packs in the Athabaska Valley of Jasper National Park totaling 22 individuals. More information can be found here: www.jasperenvironmental.org/main-issues/wolf/
Yamnuska Sanctuary, Cochrane, Alberta
Wolf-dog hybrid (hybrid for short) is a term used to identify the offspring that resulted from the mating between a wolf and a domestic dog. Some may use the term wolf-dog hybrid and wolfdog interchangeably, but there is an important distinction between the two. Wolfdogs are not always hybrids, and it is often used to describe a domestic dog with a relatively recent wolf ancestry.
Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and wolves (Canis lupus) share an evolutionary past and thus display similar physical and behavioral traits. These two species are interfertile, meaning that they can interbreed and produce viable offspring. In other words, wolves can breed with dogs, and their offspring can produce offspring themselves. Although hybridization can occur naturally in the wild, these events are relatively rare because the territorial nature of wolves leads them to protect their home ranges from intruding canines such as dogs, coyotes and other wolves.
Despite their shared ancestry and ability to interbreed, these two species are very different. Wolves are wild animals, and they are shaped by evolutionary pressures that allow them to find food, keep themselves safe, and produce offspring. The genetics that they express in the environments that they live in allow them to survive, without the help of humans.
Domestication is the process by which a wild animal adapts to living with humans by being selectively bred by humans over thousands of years. Dogs evolved from a common ancestor with the wolf through a centuries-long process of domestication.
Through this process, a dog’s behavior, life cycle and physiology have become permanently altered from that of a wolf. In essence, the selective breeding process has put a different set of pressures on dogs, shaping them so that they are more dependent on humans for their survival and make them flexible to our way of living. The genes they express, have been altered to varying degrees from their wild counterpart and help them live that domestic life well.
Governed by their instincts, wolves, both in the wild and in captivity, exhibit behavior that is relatively consistent. Their behavioral characteristics have been studied and observed for many decades by researchers, and much has been published about their social dynamics, hunting behavior and territorial nature. Thanks to the researchers’ hard work, we can understand the wolf’s reactions to different situations based on their inherent instincts. However, just as with any wild animal, their behavior will always retain some unpredictability.